Spring just around the corner?

Anthony Edwards / Staff PhotoSap buckets outside of Sugar and Spice restaurant in Mendon on Sunday afternoon show that sugarmakers are getting ready for the season.

It’s about to start looking like sugaring weather, with cold nights and warmer days, although that won’t get here till the end of the week. Today we’ll likely see the same intermittent snow showers that we’ve had over the last few days, with some light winds. Talk around town has shifted to wishing for snow to ‘well, I might just be ready for spring.’ ‘Yup.’

Forecast Discussion:
Low pressure stacked through a deep layer in the atmosphere is centered just south of the Bay of Fundy this morning. It’s been responsible for the clouds and periodic snow showers and flurries throughout the weekend, and will give us one more day of the same before starting to pull out to sea tonight, then accelerating to the east tomorrow. High pressure over central Quebec will edge southward in its wake and slowly dry out the atmosphere. Some low-level maritime moisture will hang around through Wednesday due to a developing easterly flow between the high and a new storm that’ll bring heavy rain or heavy wet snow to the mid-Atlantic on Wednesday. Later in the week as the flow becomes more northerly, the low levels will finally dry out and the rapidly strengthening March sun will go to work, pushing afternoon temperatures into the low 40s from Thursday through Sunday. Overnight lows will drop into the 20s. Sounds like good sugaring weather for the last half of the week!